Originally Posted by Rekna

Let's say Saddam wanted to move his alleged stockpiles prior to the war. What exactly would this require? First he would have to know where all his weapons are, then he would have to provide these locations to people to move them, and issue commands for them to move them. This would require a TUN of paperwork to effectivley communicate. It would leave behind a huge trail to be followed. There would be documents that contain orders, documents that contain the locations of these weapons, documents that contain information on how to properly move them, and then there would be a lot of witnesses who helped move these. Yet years after we invaded Iraq we have no evidence of any of these documents, no evidence that he didn't actually disarm when he said he did, and we have no witnesses coming forward to say they helped with the move. In order to believe that these weapons were moved we have to assume that saddam and his soldiers were so maticulous that they were able to shred and hide every single document involved in this move, that they were able to do the move in such a way that the US wouldn't notice with their spy planes and satalites, and then manage to silence (kill) every single witness involved who might speak up a few years later when there was no fear of reprisal from saddam and company, of course this killing would have to have been done in such a way that no one noticed, and then finnaly the bodies would have all had to been hidden.

Or there is an alternative, Saddam was purpousfully making it seem like he had weapons in order to make his hand look stronger than it was, when he saw the US was going to call he decided to fold but the US wouldn't let him fold and forced him to stay at the table.

Can someone apply Occam's Razor to these two senarios for me please.